GRUB with IDE and SCSI disk
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Mar 23 12:59:13 UTC 2006
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> One of my systems has an IDE disk and a SCSI disk. I upgraded the IDE
> disk and I need to reinstall grub. /boot is in /dev/sda1, but the
> system boots off of /dev/hda.
>
> I've tried various things to install GRUB on the new /dev/hda, but
> everything results in a complaint during boot that
>
> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist.
>
> For example, in GRUB shell, I installed using:
>
> > root (hd1,0)
> > setup (hd0)
>
> The installation seems to work fine, but boot fails as above. I had this
> working before, but for my life I can't recall how I did it differently
> from this.
>
> What am I missing?
>
You probably need to make the device.map file reflect the drive ordering
that your BIOS is using.
Paul.
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